Wrong,
Please let me reassure you, I know what I'm talking about.
It was 6 oktober 2008, I was playing the Lbp beta and it crashed several times because of server instability. After five crashes or so I noticed something disturbing in the XMB, no disc was present... yeah right the famous disc read error problem.
Luckily it was still in waranty, so on 9 oktober 2008 I took my broken 60 gig ps3 back to Game Mania, which is a local game-store in Belgium. They assured me I would get a refurbished 60 gig but it would take longer than the 40 gig's to get it back, about six weeks.
8 Days later 17 oktober 2008 I got a phone call from the game store. They already received my new ps3. As soon as I could I took it home to check if they sent me the right model. I was more than pleasantly surprised to discover that not only did they give me a 60gig with card slots and BC, but they managed to give me what looked like a brand new one (perhaps only the casing was brand new but it was all taped with plastic foil just like you receive it new).
I can confirm that you do get the same model you send in, it's still bc and it looks brand new. With a bit of luck you get it back in one to two weeks, if not it could take from 4 to 6 weeks.
I hope this answers your questions, I experienced this first hand...
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